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...think it’s going to be marvelous...it’ll be a much happier place,” Wilkins says of the construction. “I just can’t wait...
...Jackson held St. Louis off in the 6-1 fifth game, when a close call at the plate caused Manager Whitey Herzog to mutter a few favorite epithets, the treat of a Tudor-Saberhagen showdown in a seventh game began to come into focus. All that required was a happier destiny for old Leibrandt in Game 6: a preposterous ninth-inning comeback, 2-1, topped by Dane Iorg's pinch...
...this year, all such ghosts reappear, along with the happier memories of relief and victory. Forty years ago, Europe emerged from six years in a dark and terrifying room into sudden light. There were the cheering citizens tossing hats in the air, and there were the dead in piles and ditches. There was also the promise of a peaceful future that would soon show Europe to be neither dead nor wholly revived. No more grandly expanding empires. No more nationalistic war whoops--the egotism and sentimentality of 19th century European romanticism having found its deadly end in the Nazis...
...labor lawyer now uses his negotiating skills to bring the shifting middle of the court--Harry Blackmun, Lewis Powell and Byron White--closer to the liberal corner that he shares with Thurgood Marshall and often John Paul Stevens. A hesitating colleague is likely to be asked, "Would you be happier if the standard were phrased this way?" If, as often happens, he is seeking Powell's fifth vote, recalls a former court staffer, he will "have the clerk working on the opinion keep in touch with Powell's clerk" to make sure the emerging reasoning is acceptable to his colleague...
...latest album, out in Europe this week, is heavily indebted to, well, New Order. They have evolved their trademark mix of bass, synthesizer and pop hooks by embracing and perfecting their own legacy. The result is as relaxed and upbeat as Sumner's current incarnation. "I'm just a happier person, and that contentment shows in the music," he explains, sipping tea in a Paris studio dressing room before taping a performance for French TV channel Canal Plus last week. But despite the unapologetic joy that propelled the album's first single, Krafty, into the U.K. Top 10, Sumner warns...